World Table Tennis Europe Smash \u2013 Sweden 2025: Truls M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh sends Sweden into party mode<\/p>\n
M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh was the conductor of the entire Swedish population urging him on in the final. Roared on with every point, he took an emphatic opening game against a shellshocked Lin, who was fighting to stay afloat with the Swede\u2019s offensive game plan. That included a fast ball striking Lin\u2019s body, though the 20-year-old responded with an equalising game.<\/p>\n
M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh\u2019s aggressive approach was keeping him at bay with the world no. 1, and though an injury scare on his ankle might have slowed him down, the double Olympic medallist fought on to retake the lead.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old was enjoying himself and bellowed his way ever closer to a historic triumph, going 3-1 up on the scoreboard. Top seed Lin was not going to go down that easily, striking back with a surge of quiet confidence and working his way back into the final point by point.<\/p>\n
While M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh was playing superbly to the energy of the crowd, it brought out more unforced errors and raised the tension levels as Lin set up two game points.<\/p>\n
The Swede held his nerve to deny 20-year-old Li and set up his first championship point, only to miss it and allow Lin to create a third game point and come from behind to force a deciding seventh game.<\/p>\n
With so little to separate the pair, M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh drew level on Lin\u2019s serve for a second championship point. An unbelievable rally pushed both men to the limit, and at last, the Swede broke down Lin to seal a dream title on home soil in Malm\u00f6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World Table Tennis Europe Smash \u2013 Sweden 2025: Truls M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh sends Sweden into party mode M\u00f6reg\u00e5rdh was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-370480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115085424980332662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}